The Dating Diet: The T & A-Team
I'd like to report otherwise, but I'm finding a lack of maturity on the dating scene. In fact, I don't see much dating happening at all; rather, I spy a lot of game-playing with men [...]
Dear Jody: Pining for a player
Q: I am involved with a woman, "Julie," who lives part-time in my city. The reason I say "part-time" is because her job takes her back and forth between where I live and two other [...]
Book Marks: From the Closet to the Courtroom, Date with a Sheesha
by Richard Labonte "From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation," by Carlos A. Ball. Beacon Press, 288 pages, $27.95 hardcover. From Stonewall to ACT UP to pro-marriage [...]
‘Mo-dern Family
Julianne Moore breezes into the room - a cozy, sun-lit suite at a Four Seasons in Los Angeles - with a perky bounce, appearing far shinier than the ordinary-looking lesbian mom she plays in "The [...]
Sarah McLachlan’s Re-‘Surfacing’
"Loving You is Easy" isn't just Sarah McLachlan's long-awaited single from her first all-original studio album in seven years. It's also what many of the fans she's courted - and soothed and depressed - in [...]
Queen of the Night
Kelis doesn't take crap from anyone. Not from closet cases. Not from PETA, which she chewed out recently after they got on her case for wearing fur. That so much about her - two Grammy [...]
The Plastic ‘Party’
Everyone loves Tupperware, right? Well, so does Dixie Longate, America's top-seller of the famous plastic ware, who comes to Saugatuck's Mason Street Warehouse beginning July 21 and throws a good ol' fashioned Tupperware party filled [...]
Affirmations takes part in unique food tour
by Lucy Hough Those interested in experiencing various tastes in the Detroit area will have an opportunity as Affirmations embarks on a Taste-Full Tour on July 22. The bus-led expedition will travel around Detroit and [...]
Bebe Busts into Detroit
By Lawrence Baker "RuPaul's Drag Race" has already crowned America's second Drag Superstar, but Bebe Zahara Benet will always be our first. The winner of Season 1 has enjoyed a hugely successful reign, with her [...]
Deep Inside Hollywood
By Romeo San Vicente Cynthia Nixon catches 'The Big C' Time to shake the embarrassing sands of Abu Dhabi from Cynthia Nixon's resume with some fresh work, wouldn't we all agree? Well, she's got some [...]
Q Scopes: Open up more, Taurus!
By Jack Fertig Venus, Jupiter and Pluto are all in mutual aspect, bringing out artistic challenges and erotic opportunities, very possibly opening up profound insights. Sun, Mars and Aries are also working together, boosting aggressive [...]
Best of the Bicons
Across 1 Chef Traci Des ___ 8 Mystics 15 They're often seen on slides 16 Joan of Arc, allegedly 17 "Blonde Venus" cross-dresser 19 Hot time for Colette 20 "Like, fer sure" 21 "Ben Hur" [...]
Farce bubbles with merriment
By Bridgette M. Redman "An Italian Straw Hat" is all that a farce should be. One might expect no less from the patriarch of the genre -- especially when it is superlatively performed by Hope [...]
Got Gershwin? Tibbits does – and it’s fun!
By Bridgette M. Redman Composer and lyricist George and Ira Gershwin share a talent with playwright Ken Ludwig. The trio know how to delight an audience. Put them together and you get the Tony-award winning [...]
Gender-bending show brings big laughs at the Ringwald
"It's a bitch sorting out our sordid lives," sings country-western crooner Bitsy May Harling at the opening of "Sordid Lives: It's a Drag!" at Ferndale's Ringwald Theatre. But in this particular version of Del Shores' [...]
Pittmann-Puckett documentary maker expects 2010 release
As soon as Brian Alexander heard the tragic story of how a lesbian couple was murdered by gunshot on their front lawn by a homophobic neighbor, he knew that he had to make a film [...]
Josh Puckett fights for freedom
The 1992 murder of the Huron Township couple Christine Puckett and Susan Pittmann sent fear, anger and devastation surging through the Detroit-area LGBT community. Candlelight vigils were held, activist groups spoke out against hate and, [...]
Feelin’ Hot, Hot, Hot!
by Jessica Carreras Though a Detroit city budget cut scare in mid June almost caused the cancelation of half of the events for 2010's Hotter Than July, with the backing of City Council President Charles [...]
Between Ourselves: Lucy Hough
by Jessica Carreras Lucy Hough has been spending her summer working as Between The Lines' editorial intern. The 19-year-old Northern Michigan University student and Northville native is running her school newspaper, The North Wind, for [...]
LGBT community member and sound engineer dies
On July 11, Jerrell "Jerry" L. Frederick, passed away. He was 80. Frederick was a longtime, well-respected film sound engineer for Motion Picture Sound. He is survived by his loving companion John Keeber, brother David [...]
Affirmations launches campaign to end underage drinking
FERNDALE - Affirmations, the Ferndale-based LGBT community center, announced plans last week for a new campaign designed to keep center youth alcohol-free and is counting on area bar and restaurant owners to help out. They [...]
The Ultimate Gay Male
As part of the 2010 week of Hotter Than July events, Young Brothers United and MPowerment Detroit will present their third annual town hall meeting, "The Ultimate Gay Male - Community, Culture, Celebration, Communication" from [...]
DOMA shot down in Mass.
By Lisa Keen In an enormous victory for same-sex marriage, a federal judge in Boston ruled July 8 - in two separate lawsuits - that a critical part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act [...]
What hatred can do
There are many times in our lives as LGBT people where we are asked to, or simply do, recall pioneers in our community - people who really stood for something and created change. Here in [...]
Creep of the Week: National Organization for Marriage
If you've been hearing air raid sirens ever since July 8, they're likely coming from the National Organization for Marriage HQ where everybody is freaking out about the Defense of Marriage Act being ruled unconstitutional [...]
Parting Glances: Who says it’s psychic? (Pt. 1)
The former owner of the house that my art studio is located in - Ed Black died over 10 years ago - has twice in recent weeks "returned" to jog my fond memories of him. [...]
S/he said: Politics, trans pride and gospel music
compiled by Howard Israel "Like, maybe I'm having a clandestine affair with Ricky Martin. I know it's really gonna upset a lot of gay men - I'm sure hundreds of 'em are gonna be jumping [...]
Viewpoint: View From the West Wing
Whether it was in a civics/history class or on "Schoolhouse Rock" when the concept of our government was first introduced to you, there's nothing like a visit to Washington, D.C., to get you really thinking [...]
The Gay Moralist: A marriage, by any other name…
by John Corvino In vetoing Hawaii's civil unions bill, Gov. Linda Lingle noted that the bill was "essentially marriage by another name." She has a point. Of course I don't agree with her decision, and [...]